With contentious issues on our minds ranging from bailing out Wall Street to picking the next president, it's no wonder that a momentous act of Congress slipped under the radar screen last week with little notice. A 26-year-old moratorium on drilling in federal waters off our shores quietly went down the tubes. Although this action doesn't mean that drilling is imminent, it does mean that the government could offer leases in some Atlantic waters as early as 2011.
It was doomed by two powerful...Full Story